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September 2, 2006

A friend of mine returned from Sweden a few days ago and gave me a Logitech Quickcam Express as a present. This is the second time that I have recieved a webcam as a present. Both cameras unfortunately are unusable on linux.

When you plug the device nothing happens, except for a message in the log file.

Aug 31 20:56:43 blog kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Aug 31 20:56:43 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
Aug 31 20:56:43 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Aug 31 21:03:16 kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
Aug 31 21:03:16 kernel:  2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
Sep  1 16:03:42 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Sep  1 16:03:43 kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Not much you can do with that. I then tried to use it with wine. No luck . The installer refuses to run. So it looks like I will have to download and install third party drivers. That is a painfull affair, the driver needs to be recompiled each time the kernel is updated.